Eastern Michigan Athletics
Friday, November 12
East Lansing, Mich.
8:30 p.m.
Eastern Michigan University
at
Michigan State
Men's Basketball Opens 2010-11 at No. 2 Michigan State
11/9/2010 9:04:16 PM | Men's Basketball
Game time set for Friday, Nov. 12, at 8:30 p.m. in East Lansing, Mich.
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CHALLENGING WAY TO OPEN A SEASON: The Eastern Michigan University men's basketball team will have its hands full in the 2010-11 season opener as the Eagles travel to East Lansing to take on the preseason No. 2 ranked Spartans of Michigan State University, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. Game time in the Breslin Center is 8:30 p.m.
EASTERN MICHIGAN WILL TRAVEL FOR TWO IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS: The Eastern Michigan University men's basketball team will participate in two in-season tournaments during the 2010-11 campaign. EMU will take on Monmouth, North Dakota and host Idaho in the three-day Basketball Travelers Invitational, Dec. 3-5, in Moscow, Idaho.The second tournament will be closer to home as the Eagles will head to Rochester, Mich. for the Lou Henson Tournament, Dec. 20-21, at the O'Rena on Oakland University's campus. The Eagles take on Valparaiso at 5 p.m. and Oakland will play Rochester at 7:30 on the first day of the tourney, Dec. 20. The two first-day losing teams will meet at 5 p.m. and the championship game is slated for 7:30 p.m., Dec. 21.
COACHING STAFF RETURNS INTACT: The entire EMU men's basketball staff returns from last season, led by sixth-year Head Coach Charles E. Ramsey. Associate Head Coach Derrick McDowell and Assistant Coach Carl Thomas are also back for his sixth years while Assistant Coach Andrew Moore and Director of Basketball Operations Chris Highfield are both in their third years.
The only new addition to the support staff is Graduate Assistant Wendale Farrow who is entering his first year on the staff after graduating from EMU in 2009. Farrow was a two-year letterman for the Eagles as a junior-college transfer.
FOR THE 114th TIME: The 2010-11 season is the 114th of men's intercollegiate basketball for the Eastern Michigan University Eagles. Eastern played its first season in 1897-98 and split games with Detroit, losing a 2-0 decision before coming back for a 4-0 victory. The 2007-08 season will also be the 34th for the Eagles in the Mid-American Conference. The first year of MAC play for EMU was 1974-75 when the then-Hurons went 12-14 overall and 4-9 in league play. EMU has won three Mid-American Conference titles: 1987-88, 1990-91, and 1995-96, and the Green and White captured MAC Tournament crowns in all three of those years in addition to winning the tournament title in 1997-98.
37th MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE YEAR: The 2010-11 season will be Eastern Michigan University 37th in Mid-American Conference men's basketball action. EMU joined the conference in 1971, but did not get a league men's basketball schedule cleared until the 1974-75 season.
MULTIPLE LEAGUES REPRESENTED ON EMU SCHEDULE: The Eagles' 2010-11 non-conference schedule will have 13 different leagues represented. Detroit and Valparaiso are the only two opponents from the same league, the Horizon. All of the other opponents are the lone representatives of their conferences. Representing the Big Ten is Michigan State, the Colonial is James Madison, the Great West is North Dakota, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is Canisius, the Missouri Valley is Drake, the Northeast Conference is Monmouth, the Southern is Samford, the Summit is Oakland, the Western Athletic Conference is Idaho, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is Ferris State, the Wolverine-Hoosier representative is Madonna and the U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association is Rochester College.
BOWDRY IS PICK FOR MAC PRESEASON TEAM: EMU senior forward Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) has been selected to the Mid-American Conference West Division preseason first team in a vote by the MAC NewsMedia Association. Bowdry was the only player in the MAC to average double figures in points and rebounds last year, at 16.4 ppg and 10.0 rpg. In addition, Bowdry finished the 2009-10 season with 16 double-doubles, the 20th best effort in the nation.
CLIMBING UP THE RECORD BOOK: EMU senior forward Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) enters his senior season in the top 20 in both career scoring and rebounding. Bowdry has scored 1,258 career points to rank 17th while his 722 rebounds is good for the eighth spot.
COACHING CONNECTIONS: EMU Head Coach Charles E. Ramsey is one of six head coaches with Eastern Michigan University ties currently coaching in the NCAA Division I ranks. Ramsey, a 1992 EMU graduate and former EMU assistant, joins fellow EMU graduate Stan Heath (South Florida), along with former EMU coaches Ben Braun (Rice), Keith Dambrot (Akron), Gary Waters (Cleveland State) and Tony Harvey (Texas Southern) as head coaches. Heath played for Eastern from 1985-87. Braun is EMU's winningest head coach after coaching from 1986-1996. Dambrot was a member of Braun's staff from 1986-89 and Waters was a Braun assistant from 1989-95. Harvey was an EMU assistant coach from 1996-99.
Click Here to Listen to the Game via All-Access.
Click Here for Live Stats.
CHALLENGING WAY TO OPEN A SEASON: The Eastern Michigan University men's basketball team will have its hands full in the 2010-11 season opener as the Eagles travel to East Lansing to take on the preseason No. 2 ranked Spartans of Michigan State University, Friday, Nov. 12, 2010. Game time in the Breslin Center is 8:30 p.m.
EASTERN MICHIGAN WILL TRAVEL FOR TWO IN-SEASON TOURNAMENTS: The Eastern Michigan University men's basketball team will participate in two in-season tournaments during the 2010-11 campaign. EMU will take on Monmouth, North Dakota and host Idaho in the three-day Basketball Travelers Invitational, Dec. 3-5, in Moscow, Idaho.The second tournament will be closer to home as the Eagles will head to Rochester, Mich. for the Lou Henson Tournament, Dec. 20-21, at the O'Rena on Oakland University's campus. The Eagles take on Valparaiso at 5 p.m. and Oakland will play Rochester at 7:30 on the first day of the tourney, Dec. 20. The two first-day losing teams will meet at 5 p.m. and the championship game is slated for 7:30 p.m., Dec. 21.
COACHING STAFF RETURNS INTACT: The entire EMU men's basketball staff returns from last season, led by sixth-year Head Coach Charles E. Ramsey. Associate Head Coach Derrick McDowell and Assistant Coach Carl Thomas are also back for his sixth years while Assistant Coach Andrew Moore and Director of Basketball Operations Chris Highfield are both in their third years.
The only new addition to the support staff is Graduate Assistant Wendale Farrow who is entering his first year on the staff after graduating from EMU in 2009. Farrow was a two-year letterman for the Eagles as a junior-college transfer.
FOR THE 114th TIME: The 2010-11 season is the 114th of men's intercollegiate basketball for the Eastern Michigan University Eagles. Eastern played its first season in 1897-98 and split games with Detroit, losing a 2-0 decision before coming back for a 4-0 victory. The 2007-08 season will also be the 34th for the Eagles in the Mid-American Conference. The first year of MAC play for EMU was 1974-75 when the then-Hurons went 12-14 overall and 4-9 in league play. EMU has won three Mid-American Conference titles: 1987-88, 1990-91, and 1995-96, and the Green and White captured MAC Tournament crowns in all three of those years in addition to winning the tournament title in 1997-98.
37th MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE YEAR: The 2010-11 season will be Eastern Michigan University 37th in Mid-American Conference men's basketball action. EMU joined the conference in 1971, but did not get a league men's basketball schedule cleared until the 1974-75 season.
MULTIPLE LEAGUES REPRESENTED ON EMU SCHEDULE: The Eagles' 2010-11 non-conference schedule will have 13 different leagues represented. Detroit and Valparaiso are the only two opponents from the same league, the Horizon. All of the other opponents are the lone representatives of their conferences. Representing the Big Ten is Michigan State, the Colonial is James Madison, the Great West is North Dakota, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is Canisius, the Missouri Valley is Drake, the Northeast Conference is Monmouth, the Southern is Samford, the Summit is Oakland, the Western Athletic Conference is Idaho, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is Ferris State, the Wolverine-Hoosier representative is Madonna and the U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association is Rochester College.
BOWDRY IS PICK FOR MAC PRESEASON TEAM: EMU senior forward Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) has been selected to the Mid-American Conference West Division preseason first team in a vote by the MAC NewsMedia Association. Bowdry was the only player in the MAC to average double figures in points and rebounds last year, at 16.4 ppg and 10.0 rpg. In addition, Bowdry finished the 2009-10 season with 16 double-doubles, the 20th best effort in the nation.
CLIMBING UP THE RECORD BOOK: EMU senior forward Brandon Bowdry (St. Louis, Mo.-Taylor (Mich.) Truman) enters his senior season in the top 20 in both career scoring and rebounding. Bowdry has scored 1,258 career points to rank 17th while his 722 rebounds is good for the eighth spot.
COACHING CONNECTIONS: EMU Head Coach Charles E. Ramsey is one of six head coaches with Eastern Michigan University ties currently coaching in the NCAA Division I ranks. Ramsey, a 1992 EMU graduate and former EMU assistant, joins fellow EMU graduate Stan Heath (South Florida), along with former EMU coaches Ben Braun (Rice), Keith Dambrot (Akron), Gary Waters (Cleveland State) and Tony Harvey (Texas Southern) as head coaches. Heath played for Eastern from 1985-87. Braun is EMU's winningest head coach after coaching from 1986-1996. Dambrot was a member of Braun's staff from 1986-89 and Waters was a Braun assistant from 1989-95. Harvey was an EMU assistant coach from 1996-99.
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